Emma Hart is an artist whose work spans video, installation, ceramics and sculpture. She believes the overwhelming real we stumble through is split from the way digital culture references it, then smoothes it all over. Life looks good in images, or if not good then far away enough for us to manage and control. Sculpture, most recently ceramics, provides a way to physically corrupt and ‘dirty’ images and forcefully squeeze more life out of them.
We have teamed up with Fierce Festival to show some of Emma’s earlier video works at their festival hub BOM (Birmingham Open Media). On Saturday 4th October from 4pm, we will be screening a showreel of 7 videos, as a counterpoint to her solo show at Grand Union of her ceramic sculptural works. Hart’s main concerns are the limits and the frustrations of the lens, and we aim to chart her progression from her previous video works to her current obsession with ceramic sculptural objects.